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Oscar’s plans for a book!
This January, in my Welcome to Oscar’s Salon, I wrote: “With 2015 we enter the third and final year of Oscar’s Salon.” Since then, I have discovered “Not so!” In March I elbowed out three weeks of writing time and wrote the final section of Oscar of Between, then read the entire manuscript. I haven’t read it in its entirety since 2012. Then it was comprised of Part 1 – 21.
The complete manuscript is now Part 1 – 36. Honestly, I was surprised by how engrossing a read it is in print. Subsequently, I realized two things: that the salon’s abridged version of Oscar will run until July 2016; that Oscar of Between needs to exist in print book format. Many of you have told me how much you love the salon (as do I). Yet, more of you have told me you want to read it in book format and you were right.
Ideally, I’d like the book come out while Oscar’s Salon is still “live.” Then readers can bridge between the richness of the salon’s accompanying, provocative voices and images, and the continuity of the book’s complete narrative. Wish me luck!
-Betsy ala Oscar
A Book A Month Giveaway for April
Every month until the end of December 2015, we are giving away one incribed book by Betsy Warland.* This month, we are giving away "Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss." In this...
A Book A Month Giveaway for March
Every month until the end of December 2015, we are giving away one book by Betsy Warland.* This month, we are giving away The Bat Had Blue Eyes.
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In The Bat Had Blue Eyes, Betsy Warland transports the reader to a prairie farmhouse where family patterns repeat undetected. Once there, she deftly reveals how language encodes pain-filled memories as a mystery. This is a journey rich in sense, smell, and texture with the writer in exquisite control, molding and shaping the language that has constrained her, until it sets her free. The winner will receive one inscribed copy of the book.
Courting the ‘C’ in CNF: Pre-Conference Master Class
The Creative Non-Fiction Collective is hosting their annual conference in Victoria this year. The conference is scheduled for April 24-26, 2015 at the Inn at Laurel Point. Betsy is facilitating a master class on Friday, April 24th, as part of the pre-conference event series.
2015 Muskwa-Kechika Storytelling Retreat
The Muskwa-Kechika Storytelling Retreat is taking place from August 9 to 16th at Muncho Lake, BC.
Featured Writer Jónína Kirton
Have you been following along with the weekly writing prompts? This month, we are featuring writer Jónína Kirton, with her piece based on the You Are Here prompt. If you haven’t been following, you can view the prompts here.
A Book A Month Giveaway For February
Every month until the end of December 2015, we are giving away one book by Betsy Warland.* This month, we are giving away What Holds Us Here.
Published in 1998 from Bushbeck Books, What Holds Us Here is a collection of nine suites of poems on various forms of longing, ranging from Van Gogh’s paintings, to love found and lost, to a muse on the nature of narrative. The winner will receive one inscribed copy of the book.
Betsy’s Work Included in Two Anthologies
Betsy is proud to be included in the anthology, Kwe: Standing With Our Sisters, edited by Joseph Boyden, with an excerpt of Oscar of Between. Released in December, 2014, the book is a call for...
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